An Overview of Multiwavelength Brillouin-Raman Fiber Laser

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of most of the articles which concerned with the generation of multiwavelength fiber laser based on hybrid nonlinear Brillouin and Raman gain mediums. We summarize and discuss the previous studies from a scientific point of view; by explained the performance parameters of multiwavelength Brillouin Raman fiber laser (MBRFL). These parameters include threshold power, number of output channels, and flatting of Stokes lines. Before that the basic concept of these type of lasers are explained. In addition, we described the main performance enhancement techniques that used in MBRFL.